Public health response team definition

Public health response team means a team of professionals, including licensed health care providers, nonmedical professionals skilled and trained in disaster or emergency response, and public health practitioners, which is sponsored by a hospital or other entity and approved by the department to provide disaster assistance in the event of a disaster or threatened disaster.2003 Acts, ch 33, §1, 11; 2003 Acts, ch 179, §64; 2005 Acts, ch 89, §6, 7; 2006 Acts, ch 1184,§83; 2009 Acts, ch 37, §4, 5Referred to in §29C.6, §135M.1, §135M.3, §135M.4, §137.116, §139A.2 135.141 Division of acute disease prevention and emergency response — establishment— duties of department.1. A division of acute disease prevention and emergency response is established within the department. The division shall coordinate the administration of this division of this chapter with other administrative divisions of the department and with federal, state, and local agencies and officials.2. The department shall do all of the following:
Public health response team or “PHRT” means a team of professionals, including licensed health care providers, nonmedical professionals skilled and trained in disaster or emergency response, and public health practitioners, that is sponsored by the department, a hospital or other entity and approved by the department to provide assistance in the event of a disaster or threatened disaster or other incident defined in Iowa Code section 135.143. “Public health response team” shall include disaster medical assistance teams, environmental health response teams, epidemiology response teams, and other teams established and approved upon written order of the director, to supplement and support disrupted or overburdened local medical and public health personnel, hospitals, and resources.
Public health response team means a team of professionals, including licensed health care providers, nonmedical professionals skilled and trained in disaster or emer- gency response, and public health practitioners, which is sponsored by a hospital or other entity and approved by the department to provide disaster assistance in the event of a disaster or threatened disaster.

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Public health response team means a team of professionals, including licensed health care providers, nonmedical professionals skilled and trained in disaster or emergency response, and public health practitioners, which is sponsored by a hospital or other entity
Public health response team or “PHRT” means a team of professionals, including licensed health care providers, non- medical professionals skilled and trained in disaster or emer- gency response, and public health practitioners, that is spon-

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